Pros
Incredible mission with the potential for lots of opportunity for real world impact.
Cons
What was once a dynamic, creative, nimble organization is mired in toxic office politics, power struggles, and shockingly bad leadership. The mission has been subverted into an ego-project to benefit the CEO--and the staff are expected to be unquestioningly in support of everything, regardless of how off mission, incorrect, or ridiculous. The organization wastes an enormous amount of resources on ridiculous projects that are generally only designed to increase the CEO's exposure. These projects are regularly mismanaged, poorly executed, and ill-conceived while also managing to waste a gigantic amount of time and money. The organization's standards have slipped considerably since they rebranded to become Power to Decide. Because of this new name (Power to Decide), there is a great deal of lip service about empowerment and staff involvement, but it's not true--any questions or feedback are regarded as insubordination and staff who speak up are chastised or verbally abused for doing so. The CEO has cultivated an exclusive club of senior staff, most of whom are friends/colleagues with whom she's worked at previous organizations. As a result, there is no opportunity for those not in her inner circle to truly give feedback, share ideas, or simply get their work done without being judged or micromanaged. Goals and objectives for projects are regularly moved or changed outright without warning or explanation so staff are set on a particular course, allowed to spend time and sometimes money moving in the agreed-upon direction, and then punished when they are not clairvoyant enough to read the CEO's mind and course correct accordingly. Perhaps the worst strike of all is that legitimate, sometimes serious HR issues are ignored or brushed under the rug, leading to dramatic power imbalances and a culture of fear. This is, quite simply, a truly awful place to work.